Steam-separating apparatus.



No. 806,129. PATBNTED DEC. 5, 1905,

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STEAM SBPARATING APPARATUS". APPLIUATION FILED JULY 7, 1905.

UNITED STATES .PATENT- oFFmE.

"EDWARD L. FORD, OF ZWOLLE, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO T. V.WILSON, OF ZWOLLE, LOUISIANA.

STEAM-SEPARATING APPARATUS- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 5, 1905.

' Application filed July 7, 1906. Serial No. 268,607;

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. FORD, aciti zen of the United States,residing at Zwolle, Sabine. parish, State of Louisiana, have n inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Steam Drying and SeparatingApparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make-and use the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a partof this specification.

of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, which willhereinafter be fully described, and then specifically defined in theappended claim.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which n IFigure 1 is a side elevation of my improved apparatus, and Fig. 2 is avertical section of the same.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, Adesignates a conicalshaped receptacle, having two walls B and O spacedapart. D designates the top of the receptacle, which is centrallyapertured to receive a pipe F, which'is adapted to communicate with acylinder or other object to which the steam after being entirelyseparated from excessive moisture is adapted to be fed. The spaceintermediate said walls B and O of the receptacle is provided with aspiral passageway E, extending from the upper portion of an inlet-pipe Hdown to the lower end of said receptacle.

flanged, as at I, and is apertured to receive an exit-pipe K, whichleads to a globe-valve N,

and from said globe-valve a pipe M leads to a cylinder O, provided witha stop-cock O at The bottom of said receptacle is its bottom andcarrying a gage-tube L. Said inlet-pipe H has a flange H, which isconnected to a flange Q of a pipe Q and through which steam from theboiler passes under pressure to the space intermediate the walls B andOof the receptacle A. The inner wall C, it will be observed, is providedvwith perforations through which the steam, after a portion of theexcessive water thereof has been separated, is adapted to pass and makeexit through the pipe F, while the water of condensation, as the steamcomes in contact with the walls of the spiral passage-way, runs downthrough the pipe K and may be drawn from the receptacle.

-. From the foregoing it will be observed-that a simple and eflicientmeans is provided for separating the excess of water from steam,allowing the dry steam to pass direct from the receptacleto a cylinder,while the water conrated circumference, with a space intervening.

between said inner shell and the inner marginal edge of said spiralangle bar, acommon top to said shells fastened to the flanges projectingfrom the outer shell, a pipe leading EDWARD L. FORD.

Witnesses:

Hos EA MITCHELL, L. HENINGTON;

